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✧˖°Pallavi lives alone in a house that's too quiet for someone who's always sick. Her days blur between medicine bottles, locked doors, and the constant awareness that her body isn't as strong as it should be. The silence would swallow her whole-if not for the man assigned to protect her.
Rishi is her bodyguard. Distant. Observant. Always there. He watches her the way soldiers watch battlefields-alert, controlled, ready to act before danger even breathes her name. He says little, asks less, yet somehow knows when she's about to collapse, when the pain is worse, when she shouldn't be alone.
What Pallavi doesn't know is that he still carries a secret from childhood-a carefully folded chocolate wrapper tucked away where no one can find it. A small, ridiculous thing he never threw away. Proof that his feelings didn't begin with duty.
What starts as protection slowly becomes something neither of them is supposed to feel.
Because when you live on borrowed strength, and someone else becomes your shield...
lines blur.
Rules break.
And silence starts to mean far more than words ever could.